Today was a good day - mostly. The kids are wired really - they are tired and they are forgetting all the rules. Today, Pam (another Prep teacher) said that terms should be no longer than 8 weeks. I told her that our first term in Canada was 15 weeks, but the difference was that Preps only went for half days. Anyway, I told Sam (my TA) today that I am going to let the kids play tomorrow, basically - I figure that if the "good kids" aren't doing what they should be doing, that *I* am the one who needs to change. So, tomorrow, we will have play time outside for the first half hour and then singing time with Sam for half an hour then fruit break and then dancing with one of the TAs. After break, they will do activity rotations for an hour during which time I will listen to the kids read their sight words and then it will be science, voting for the best thing made with reused materials and then computer lab will end the day. I can't wait until 3pm tomorrow - I will be ready to leave at 3:05pm. :-)
Tomorrow I am going to be brave and drive into town. I have to go to Coles for groceries, the library and to the Post Office (to pick up a package for Dad). Sam gave me directions at school today to go to all three places without having to go through the huge roundabout in the middle of town. Then, I received an email from Dad giving me the directions as well. :-) Dad filled up the car with gas (petrol) before he left and I haven't even used enough to make the pointer go down one click. I hope that when I go grocery shopping tomorrow I will be able to get enough food to last for almost the whole time Dad is gone - I will likely have to do one more shop before he gets home. (2 weeks and 6 days - not that I'm counting :-) My throat is still hurting, so when I am out tomorrow, I will pick up some more lozenges, echinacea and vitamin C tablets. I have been drinking lots of OJ, but having the tablets will give me much more vitamin C than the OJ.
My friend, Rosalea (from church) called today about 5pm asking me if I wanted to come to dinner tonight at their house - I told her that I wasn't comfortable driving at night yet (which I would have to do to come homefrom their place after dinner) and also that Chris and Christine were coming home tonight to pick up their dog and I didn't know when. I told Rosalea that I would come over to their place the week after next to visit with her during the day and help her pack, etc. (they are moving to Western Australia) and she could feed me then. Too bad about tonight's dinner, though - she was making a roast dinner. I ended up having a chicken and tomato sandwich with chicken noodle soup.
Chris and Christine came around 5:30pm and Josie was sooo happy to see them - she went ballistic! Chris kept asking me if Josie behaved, so I'm wondering if they're thinking of asking us to look after Josie again - what could I say - she was fine - but, I was stressed with those two incidents and I wouldn't want to handle that again. We'll see what happens and hopefully, I will be strong enough to say 'no'.
It's been a boring, but relaxing evening. I have been watching tv (X Factor) and writing an email to Dad and this blog. Dad and I like watching X Factor - it's like American/Canadian/Australian Idol - four guest judges (this year they are Ronan Keating, an Irish Singer, Mel B from the Spice Girls, Natalie Bassingthwaighte, an Aussie singer and Guy Sebastian, an Aussie winner of a previous Australian Idol) and each judge chooses three acts (girls under 25, boys under 25, groups, and people over 25) which they are assigned to. Everyone sings each week and the public votes. Last year, Dad and I quite enjoyed watching it week to week especially since our choice won the competition.
Dad is still really busy at Grandma's. He is working on getting together all the words spoken at Grandpa's funeral. Doug will send Dad his eulogy, and Dad has sent an email to the other speaker, Dennis, Grandpa's friend and past co-worker. Once he has it all together he will send it onto you girls and others who may be interested (like Nana and Warren, Uncle Bob and Aunt Beth and Aunt Cathy and Uncle Gary). Today, Dad also finished contacting magazines to cancel subscriptions which Grandpa had - Dad said he is still waiting for 3/4 of them to confirm. They moved the furniture back to normal today, but will get the dining room chairs tomorrow (they had done some moving around of furniture when people were staying at both places). They also had to do some banking, and lawyer stuff, and go through videos and dvds - there are some work video/dvds of Grandpa's that his work wants to have to compile a history of Health Canada from - there's just so much to do.
I read the comments which people have made on the site set up for people to say things they want to about Grandpa. I told Dad that the thing that comes to my mind about Grandpa (other than taking us out to dinner all the time when he came to Toronto) was how he used to always take the long way home from wherever he was and how we used to joke about that all the time (that Grandpa would take four hours to go 45 minutes in distance). :-)
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